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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am trying SOOOO hard to convince my rising 9th grader at the Blair SMCS to [i]not [/i]take APUSH (which is being offered for the first time next year). She really wants to make sure she is a good writer and is worried are that the SMCS classes will be great but humanities won't be, so she will graduate without well-developed writing skills. Ninth grade in the magnet seems so intense - I don't like the idea of making it even harder.  Anybody willing to give me more ammunition for her to [i]not [/i]do this, please reply away:)  [/quote]

I had the same discussion with my rising 9th grade SMSC student. Before the high school decisions came out there had been s solid push at his middle school to encourage kids to take APUSH and it worked - he was convinced and excited about getting an AP in 9th. Then he got a place in the magnet and they discouraged it. Ultimately he decided against APUSH because 1) the magnet program advised against it unless you love history and 2) he learned that it requires a very heavy reading load of very dry history text books (hours a night) and though he loves reading that didn’t sound fun. I think the magnet workload will be intense enough that there’s no reason to add to it at this point.[/quote]

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